John Harvard's Journal

A football player in a white jersey evades a defender in a green uniform on the field.

Can Harvard’s Football Team Repeat Its Ivy League Success?

Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.

by Dick Friedman

Arts and Sciences dean Hopi Hoekstra

News in Brief

New Arts and Sciences dean, chief financial officer, Allston construction, and more

Group photo of Du Yun, Daniel Goleman, Mina Jahan Bissell, Sanford Greenberg, Catherine Gattegno Cesarsky, and John Dower

Centennial Medalists

Six alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.

President Lawrence S. Bacow

The Talk, 2023

Commencement 2023 speeches, including President Bacow’s valedictory baccalaureate and Tom Hanks’s address

Easing the College Transition

Rising Scholars brings incoming first-years from under-funded high schools to campus early.

by Max J. Krupnick

Kari Nadeau sits in her lab

Kari Nadeau

Multi-allergy immunotherapy pioneer Kari Nadeau returns to Harvard

by Max J. Krupnick

Paul J. Finnegan and Timothy R. Barakett

News in Brief

Corporation changes, Overseers’ leaders, the Mass. Hall chief of staff, Graduate School naming gift, and more

Cartoon of Anne Pusey redecoration president’s house 1953

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Pforzheimer House faculty deans Zoe Marks and Erica Chenoweth

Who’s News

Honored academicians, Radcliffe Institute fellows, and more

Harvard Medalists

Five honored for service to the University 

Harvard Cambridge Scholars

Four moving on to further studies abroad